Other records I enjoyed this year for the first time: Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen; a Nina Simone compilation a friend made; Atomic, Happy New Ears!; Art Blakey, Moanin’; Boris, Pink; Can, Ege Bamyasi and Tago Mago; Ornette Coleman, Dancing in Your Head; Midlake, The Trials of Von Occupanther (the first half of it, anyway).

And Faith Fires Back is a fairly long interview with Hauerwas by Bill Cavanaugh that touches on several aspects of Hauerwas’s theology.

None of these articles gets much into Hauerwas’s development of virtue and narrative as determinative for Christian theology–the moves he made his name on in the 70s and early 80s. But the articles should provide a decent look into his character and thought for those who are interested. And for those really interested, and who haven’t noticed yet, there is quite a debate going on about Hauerwas in the comments section of my post on Milbank.